Sugar cane growing, fire degraded Imperata and Melinis grasslands and surviving patches of mesophyll vine forest. Freshwater area, near Cairns, Queensland, September 1972.

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Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics
Sugar cane growing, fire degraded Imperata and Melinis grasslands and surviving patches of mesophyll vine forest

Freshwater area, near Cairns, Queensland

September 1972

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The land above frequent flood levels and the lower slopes of hills are now (1998) housing subdivisions of the rapidly expanding city of Cairns.
Mesophyll vine forest, lowlands and foothills on metamorphics.

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